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"PONTRACT road vehicles are a threat to nationalized services and should not be 'allowed." This was a complaint referred to the Central Trani`port Consultative Committee and published last' week in die Committee's 1950 report. Other submissions concerned railway. monthly return tickets. It was suggested by the complainant that these be available for a longer period so as to *discourage coach travel, in which return tickets are available for any period.
Representations made were brought to the notice of the British Transport Commission, and the Committed wits _satisfied that endeavours were being; made.to improve Service.'
The Committee supported integration, so long as users.'. freedom of choice was preserved. It would not be healthy to bind services too closely together. a too rigid, an association of the different forms of transport might , restrict the development of ,any particular means.
BUDGET. FOREBODINGS DUDGET day, seemed likely to com
pel operators to maintain: vehicles long after theyhad qualified for entry into a museum Of ancient relics, said Mr. C. D. Morgan. general secretary of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers, when he spoke at the northwestern centre's annual dinner in Manchester, last week. Many problems were presentid because the export drive prevented the rcPlaeement of vehicles, staled Mr.
H. J. Jones, chairman. • FARM MECHANIZATION . DIRECTORY
A N invaluable. work of reference to
farmers and agricultural contractors. " Farrn Mechanization " Directory, 1951, has been published by Temple Press LW., • Bowling Green Lane, London, E.C:1, pried 6s.' The • The book contains sections in which all types of mechanical equipment are classified for easy reference. Specifications of tractors-and other machines are given. and the publication is amply illustrated.
OBITUARY WE regret to record the death of:—
. . MR. J. A. GRIME, chief engineer of the motor department of Walker Bros. (Wigan), Ltd.' He had been with the
• company for 43 years.
MR. .1. W. Gomm South London representative of Romac... lndusfries, Ltd., for the past 23 years.